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Hello Everyone,
oh my God.. it's been so so so so long I didn't show up on my own blog!!
It's been a year to be exact. Well in a year (2016) my life is a little bit like a roller coaster back then..
I could say that in 2016 I made some progress in my life, though I never had imagine the way it is before.
I guess I finally make peace with my past, well as you terribly know I had some major issues with moving on, not to be ashamed that I was kind of too attached back then for more than 3 years after break-up. LOL, but now that I'm thinking maybe it's one of God's way to let me wait for the right one, through the delays.. and from the one I once think that will be the one but I wronged. Failure always leads to better future right.
I thought I might already meet the "right" one. (Well I hope I'm right this time) :)
So, back in 2016 earlier I already made peace with what's holding me so long. Be-friend with past.
Focus on my job, it's been a great year for me, a lot of opportunities came. Been working at Samarinda & Makassar too on February - March. And got my friends married at the time too.
Been in a relationship for almost 2 months (well I can't say it's a relationship or not remembering that we don't have the exact NUMBER of date when we're attached), and breaks-up follows.
Then had some few holidays to Bali & Jakarta too. Got some new tattoos *again*. Get a embroidery course to spend my weekdays.
And not too far from Dietary life for past 6 years. I started on 2011 if you remember, here's the stories!
I got the heaviest weight I ever had since I graduated from High school & on holiday with big family to China (u know u can't resist tasty food while u're there to celebrate CNY) & also Singapore the next holiday.
So, I weight about 89kgs back then (well I told you that my scales at home is not precision that time SO that means I might be a lot heavier for about +2kgs than the number on my scales).
Once again u didn't mis-read or I mis-type, 89kgs+++!! (DUH mimpi apa ya )
That time I wasn't even concern about my weights & how do I look. Yes I know I'm fat and that's like what evryone said. Been trying ALL diets supplements & none of them works at first till I tried "ACAI BERRY" and finally can lose about 5 to 8kgs for the 1st bottle in a month.
But it wasn't quite easy, I need to keep my mouth shut, no dinner, no steaks, no tasty food for about 6mo (YES I supplied myself with 6 bottles acai berry just so u know, through evryone alrdy knows that some ppl had quite complication using that diet supplements), of course not be able to leave home (it simply means "ansos") because if u leave home, you would go to fancy restaurants & u ordered food & it mades u fail on diets.
Singkat cerita, sdh coba mcm2 obat & cuma 1 aja yg berhasil (meskipun lama2 udah kebal jd ga ada efeknya lg then I STOPPED using acai berry).
During that period of time I already & finally lose about 15kgs (I reached 70 -75kgs in october 2012, starting diet in the middle of 2011 june or july).
LUAR BIASA SENENGNYA! tapi ga bertahan lama sih di angka 70 karena sudah mulai mengenal mknan enak lg, lalu kembalilah berat ke 75 diet lagi balik jd 70.. kyk yo-yo pokonya blm bisa balance
(And those who wonder where I buy acai berry, FYI saya pake itu obat udh 4 taun yg lalu & stop, so ngga tau masi jual apa ngga berhubung yg beliin mama)
Seiring jlnnya wkt, my weight keeps in balance for about 6 months ahead, yes I stayed at 70kgs for few couple years until early 2016 & reach 65 and go ups again to 67,7kgs to be precise hahaha (artinya uda bosen diet pokonya ga naik aja udh hepi lah kita stop diet for a while).
For current 2 months from May 2016, I go diet again till I lose a total of 8kgs in July but still go ups & down between 60-63kgs, SO until now I'm still on diets & finally reached 59-60kgs through ups & down (masi blm balance but i tried to go more lower between 57 or maybe 55 if it's possible).
So I finally lose 30kgs+ and I am prouddddd myself after all of struggles for 5 years, and almost 6.
I cut the carbs, no more snacks, soda, less beers, and less coffee too. Keep in mind kalo makan bikin km merasa bersalahhh
Bukan mau pamer atau apa, yg berubah di dunia ini jg banyak kok ngga cuma saya saja.
The trigger is that if you wanted something, you work for it, DO WHAT PEOPLE TOLD YOU YOU CAN'T DO.
Show them you can & leave them speechless.
But REMEMBER, berubahlah untuk diri sendiri BUKAN UNTUK ORANG LAIN & KARENA PAKSAAN ORANG LAIN.
Saya diet memang di paksa pada awalnya, BUT I myself quite not satistfy yet with how do I look. Jadilah itu trigger biar bisa kurus lg, and so here I am now with 55kgs and still going lower as ever! Bahagiaaaaa setidaknya pernah kurus 1x seumur hidup, and I think I don't wanna back to the FAT me back thennn
I learned my lessons, that if people didn't love you for how "not good looking" you are now, then they as well might didn't deserve you at your best looking "soon".
Enough with that dietary and curcol thingy! :)


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NEW DELHI - Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood's biggest star, turned 70 on Thursday, and said he liked the idea of getting old.
Hundreds of film stars, politicians and fans greeted Bachchan at a birthday bash thrown by his family Wednesday night in Mumbai, India's entertainment capital.
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"I quite like the idea of getting old. It's a natural phenomenon," Bachchan told the Hindustan Times newspaper in an interview published Thursday.
The actor tweeted, "Birthdays are special for all ... mine is no different ... but would never be the same without your love and affection."
Popularly known as "Big B," Bachchan has acted in more than 180 Indian films in a career spanning four decades. He rose to stardom following his leading role in the 1973 film "Zanjeer," or "The Chain," in which he played an angry policeman. He currently is hosting "Kaun Banega Crorepati," India's version of the hit television show "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire."
The Bachchans are known as Bollywood's first family — the actor is married to Jaya Bachchan, an actress-turned-legislator. Their son, Abhishek, is also an actor and married to Bollywood beauty Aishwarya Rai Bachchan.
Amitabh Bachchan said his most cherished birthday gifts are his children and grandchildren.
"To see the family happy, that everybody is happy in their space, that gives me a lot of happiness," he told the TimesNow television news channel.


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LCBO - Chesterville
Types: Liquor/Beer/Wine Stores
Region: Eastern Ontario
Address: 150 Queen Street, Chesterville
Phone: (613) 448-2020
Map - Driving Directions Map - Find Nearby Businesses
The LCBO, through its integrated distribution and retail network, has over 6,500 quality products available in some 600 LCBO retail stores across Ontario. Many of our stores are open extended hours to serve you better and carry a wide selection of wine, spirits and beer. Knowledgeable staff and Product Consultants in select stores will be pleased to answer any questions about your purchase or help with your entertaining needs.
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Ruby on Rails RoR ecommerce
e-commerce done right
ror_ecommerce is a complete ecommerce platform written completely in Rails 4, and built to scale. ror-e.com's goal is simple... to be a complete small business solution. We will save you time, effort, resources and most of all, money. From Purchase Order system, to the Checkout flow, to Getting returns done correctly, this is a solution that will work with your business.
I only list one example site for security reasons... This is a startup company I started with ror_ecommerce:


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Transportation Policy Analyst - Intermodal
- Employer
- USAJobs
- Location
- Washington D.C.
- Posted
- May 08, 2019
- Closes
- May 08, 2019
- Function
- Analyst
- Industry
- Government and Public Services, Federal
- Career Level
- Experienced (Non-Manager)
- Hours
- Full Time
Not required
Relocation expenses reimbursed No
- SELECTIVE SERVICE: Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for the Selective Service.
- DEU REQUIREMENTS: Applicants selected under delegated examining procedures may be required to successfully complete a one-year probationary period (unless already completed).
To meet the minimum qualifications for this position, you must meet the specialized experience requirements for the grade at which you are requesting consideration.
To qualify for the Grade 14, you must have at least one year of experience equal or equivalent to the GS-13, it must include:
- Experience analyzing the effects of existing or proposed regulatory/policy alternatives affecting transportation investment, infrastructure projects/programs, emerging transportation technology (e.g., autonomous vehicles, commercial drones, ride share, etc.) programs OR researching, identifying, and assessing the impact of affecting transportation investment, infrastructure projects/programs, emerging transportation technology (e.g., autonomous vehicles, commercial drones, ride share, etc.) programs involving public policy issues AND preparing written analytical reports of the impact to transportation modernization as a regular and recurring part of a job with minimal supervision.
To qualify for the Grade 15, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equal or equivalent to the GS-14, it must include:
- Experience analyzing and assessing proposed regulatory/policy alternatives affecting transportation investment, infrastructure projects/programs, emerging transportation technology (e.g., autonomous vehicles, commercial drones, ride share, etc.) programs OR planning and conducting studies on alternatives affecting transportation investment, infrastructure projects/programs, emerging transportation technology programs' impact on existing/proposed public policy issues AND preparing and presenting analytical findings that address the consequences of adopting them or other comparable work influencing transportation modernization matters as a regular and recurring part of a job.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience
For additional information about applying to Federal positions, please click on the following link: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=e4
Students enrolled in a qualifying degree program can apply if the anticipated graduation date is within six months of closing date of the announcement. Graduation transcript must be received before start date.
Other applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
Displaced employees may be eligible for ICTAP or CTAP priority consideration. For more information, please review the OPM Employee's Guide to Career Transition.
EEO STATEMENT: The Department of Transportation (DOT) maintains a model federal work environment that is free of discrimination. DOT ensures equal employment opportunity for employees and applicants for employment, regardless of race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), genetic information, age, disability, sexual orientation, or protected activity.
This position is under the CBA, AFGE Local 3313.
FLSA: Exempt
BUS Code: 1133
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You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
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Your application will be rated on the extent and quality of your experience, education and training relevant to the position. The answers you select in the on-line process must be substantiated in your application package. If upon review, it is determined that your described work history, competencies, and/or supporting documents do not support your answer choices, your application may be updated or you may not be referred to the selecting official. Please ensure that your work history provides enough details to support your answers. The Automated Staffing Office is ultimately responsible for determining your final rating.
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Declaration by the High Representative, Catherine Ashton, on behalf of the European Union on the occasion of the World and European Water Day, on 22 March
"Safe drinking water and sanitation are crucial for a healthy and dignified life. Yet millions of people worldwide are still without access to clean drinking water and thus deprived of a basic human right. Every day, more than 4000 people die of diseases resulting from the lack of access to clean drinking water, mostly children under five years of age. More than 2.4 billion people also remain without adequate sanitation facilities... (Read more (PDF))"
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC Brussels)
Residence Palace, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 155, Block C2,7th and 8th floor, Brussels 1040, Belgium
Tel.: +32 2 788 8484 / Fax: 32 2 788 8485


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Officials ID 2 killed in Eden Prairie gunfire
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The man and woman shot to death this week following a police chase in Eden Prairie have been identified.
The Hennepin County medical examiner's office says the two were 36-year-old Matthew Vincent Serbus and 34-year-old Dawn Marie Pfister. Neither had a permanent address, and each died from multiple gunshot wounds.
Authorities say the two were in a speeding vehicle that was driving erratically Friday morning. State Patrol Lt. Eric Roeske says their car rear-ended another vehicle and sped from the scene. A subsequent police chase reached speeds of more than 90 mph.
The suspects' vehicle crashed into a wall, and when the man and woman got out there was a police-involved shooting. Authorities haven't discussed details of the gunfight and haven't said whether Serbus and Pfister were armed.


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Kate Middleton and Prince William at Boat Party in Scotland
Will and Kate Attend Boat Party For Zara: What Do You Think of Pre-Wedding Parties?
Will and Kate Attend Boat Party For Zara: What Do You Think of Pre-Wedding Parties?
Prince William and Kate Middleton, aka the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, were joined by other British royal family members Prince Harry, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Eugenie on the Royal Yacht Britannia in Edinburgh, Scotland, to celebrate tomorrow's wedding between Zara Phillips and rugby player Mike Tindall. Zara, who's the Queen's granddaughter although she doesn't hold a title, and her fiancé are said to be throwing a "low-key" wedding, but this pre-big-day cocktail soiree looks quite extravagant.
I know of couples who have thrown fancy rehearsal dinners for out-of-towners, and even for the entire guest list, the night before the wedding. Although it's fun for the guests, it can get pricey, and you run the risk of the party outshining the actual ceremony (not to mention hungover guests!). What do you think of big parties before the big day?


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Addiction Counselor
Sara Maurer, LCSW
Licensed Clinical Social Worker & Diabetes Health Coach
In 14607 - Nearby to Spencerport.
It is both a challenging a empowering road when it comes to recovery from addiction. It takes commitment and willingness to start moving toward healthy change. When you are ready for that step, I am here to support you on a healing journey. Therapy will uncover self-destructive beliefs or habits (addictions/ patterns) that prevent you from feeling a sense of freedom and purpose. I also work with family members of those struggling with addiction. When addiction is present in a family, it has a profound impact on the entire family system. I aim to help individuals understand the addiction cycle and implement a recovery process that works best for you.
Addiction Counselor
Patricia Petrone, M.S., LMHC, NCC
NYS Licensed Mental Health Counselor/Psychotherapist
Are you wondering if your behavior is an Addiction? Clients often seek out therapy because they feel unsure about whether or not they're addicted. Sometimes, they are sure and have realized that they can't kick the illness alone. From chemical dependency addiction, to gambling, food, sex, pornography, or relationship addiction, the disease is truly debilitating. Addictions tear families apart, causing legal and monetary issues, divorce, as well as thousands of physical fatalities every year as a side effect. Despite the prominence of addiction today, there is hope and help waiting for you! I have years of experience treating addicts and helping them regain their lives successfully.
Addiction Counselor
Laurie Agnello, LMHC, CASAC
Licensed Mental Health Counselor/ CASAC, MsED, NCC
As a drug and alcohol counselor for children, teens and adults I provide psychoeducational information on relapse prevention and assist with collateral care. Within a school setting I have taught and counseled at risk students and children of alcoholics. Within a mental health clinic environment many clients were treated successfully who had a dual diagnosis. I have worked closely with psychiatrists to help monitor medications that assist patients in being successful with their recovery. I continue to attend ongoing workshops and classes that keep me on the cutting edge of being an effective and successful drug and alcohol counselor.
Addiction Counselor
Kevin Fleming, Ph.D.
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In 14613 - Nearby to Spencerport.
While most treatment approaches to addiction include 12 step programs, rehabs, and now sober living houses, Grey Matters International, Inc. provides a wildly successful alternative to traditional models of addiction treatment----that keeps the brain in mind. That is, talking to the conscious brain while the primal brain is deciding things even before you are consciously aware? Well, that is the problem to solve in addiction. We have the solution utilizing a new cutting edge neuroscience-centered brain rebalancing system. Contact email@example.com or call 877-606-6161.
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Are you abusing, addicted, or not sure? Are you concerned about substances (alcohol, marijuana) behaviors (sex, porn, computers, gambling, spending, cutting), or both? If you're having problems in these areas, we can sort it out and deal with it. We can uncover your triggers, come up with strategies for how you deal with them, what works, what doesn't, what situations affect your using and not using, and how this ties in with your earlier life. Together, we will improve your coping skills. Some people benefit from 12-step programs, and others like to address the above one on one. Call today to setup your individual appointment!
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Thank you for visiting our New York page of therapists in Spencerport who specialize in addictions in all forms- internet addiction, pornography and sex addictions, gambling, alcohol and drug abuse, shopping, and food addictions. An addiction can destroy lives and relationships. Often times there is a codependent person somewhere in the sphere of an addict. Professional therapy from an addiction specialist in Spencerport, NY is a vital part of recoverey and healing. We are ready to help, let's get started.
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Elevate Your Salesforce in an Ever-Changing Market
This two-hour workshop will give you knowledge on how to recruit the right sales talent, build their resilience, and retain that talent. Discover how to uncover what is holding your team back from reaching their goals.
Learn tools on how to not only recruit the right sales members, but also retain your key talent. Discover how to build emotional resilience in your team when facing tough times or down months. Lastly, find ways to uncover blind spots that limit your team's success.
You will be better equipped to hire key talent that will stay on your team. Once they are on your team, you will learn how to retain them to help increase their books of business and reach their goals. And when your team members feel like they are not reaching their goals, you'll be better prepared to uncover what is holding them back from their goals.
You will learn how to spend less time hiring new team members by retaining your current team members, leaving you more time to go make your own sales. And when your team is hitting their goals, you are hitting your goals!


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Barcelona Conference – 'SpeakApps: Tools and Tasks'
The members of the SpeakApps Consortium are offering a free half-day conference called SpeakApps: Tools and Tasks on 13 December from 10:00 to 14:00 at the Institut d'Estudis Catalans in Barcelona to mark the end of the second phase of the project's European funding as well as to spread the word about the SpeakApps tools in Barcelona.
Joan-Tomàs Pujolà of the Department of Language and Literature Education at the University of Barcelona and Usoa Sol of the Escola Sant Gregori will begin the conference by giving presentations on the design of oral tasks. Then SpeakApps project members and users will provide a brief introduction to the SpeakApps tools, which are designed to promote the teaching and learning of oral skills. This will be followed by short workshops in which participants can use the tools themselves, and consider task design for oral production and speaking interaction activities. The morning will end with refreshments and an opportunity for networking. See the complete programme for more details.
The event is free and open to anyone involved in language education, though registration is required. Certificates of attendance will be provided to participants who request them. To register, please fill out our online registration form.
We sincerely hope to see you on 13 December!


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University of Delhi BBS/BFIA/Business Economics Admissions 2012
University of Delhi BBS/BFIA/Business Economics Admissions 2012
University of Delhi admissions to BBS/BFIA/ B.A Business Economics by joint entrance test
Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS
B.A. (Honours) Business Economics (BBE)
Bachelor of Financial Investment and Analysis (BFIA)
BBS/BFIA/B.A Business Economics degree courses at the college listed below
B.A. (Honours) Business Economics (BBE)
* Bhim Rao Ambedkar College, Yamuna Vihar
* College of Vocational Studies, Sheikh Sarai
* Gargi College, Siri Fort Road
* Lakshmibai College, Ashok Vihar
* Maharaja Agrasen College, Mayur Vihar
* Ram Lal Anand College (Evening), Dhaula Kuan
* Shivaji College, Raja Garden
* Sri Guru Gobind Singh College of Commerce, Pitampura
* Sri Guru Nanak Dev Khalsa College, Dev Nagar, Karol Bagh
* Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Khalsa College, Mall Road, University Enclave
Bachelor of Business Studies (BBS)
* Deen Dayal Uphadaya College, Karampura
* Keshav Mahavidyala, Pitampura
* Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Vivek Vihar
Bachelor of Financial Investment and Analysis (BFIA)
* Shaheed Sukhdev College of Business Studies, Vivek Vihar
Details about the three courses, colleges, eligibility conditions,admission procedure,fees and entrance test are available on the websites
Application is to be submitted online through the websites
Application fee is Rs. 600/- for one course and Rs. 200/- more for each additional course ( Fee amount is half of the above for sc,ST and CW categories)
Entrance test on Sunday 3,June 2012 (10 a.m to 12 noon
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Raspberry Pi Forth Operating System is available on GitHub: https://github.com/aviatorRHK/rpiForth
The rpiForth will grow to include:
1. A file system on the SD card.
2. A text editor to write stored programs to load. ( no more host assembler ).
3. A forth ARM assembler, to write high performance forth words.
4. An Interactive multi-tasking operating system, you can fire up a task and let it run while doing other things or run two or more task at the same time.
5. A Floating point package per ANSI.
6. A I2C driver off board chips. Like the MSP430 micro.
How you all will fine some use for this.
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Apparently, when people sing Sinatra's My Way in a Philippines karaoke bar, and they sing it poorly, they die.
The epidemic's gotten so bad, in fact, that local law enforcement started calling it the "My Way Killings".
No one really know why dozens have died over the past decade while warbling to one of Sinatra's greatest hits, just that they have, and after this specific song. Is it bad singing? Traditionally violent streets being traditionally violent streets? Die hard Sinatra fans exacting their revenge on newbs who butcher the greats? Possibly. Karaoke is huge in the region, with machines popping up everywhere, from bars to alleyways (as you can see from the image). Combine that with high crime and a fanatical love of Frank Sinatra and you could have just the right mix for a kill (the audience with your talent) or be killed (by the audience for sucking) atmosphere.
One thing's for sure: This guy should stay the hell away form the Philippines. [NYT]


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"Premature optimization is the root of all evil." -- Donald Knuth.
...in other words, don't implement in extra complexity if you don't need it. A site handling a few thousand requests per day will do fine on a default configuration and just about any hardware. This article is geared towards a site that needs to handle multiple concurrent requests [ten to several hundred per second].
General [in order of importance]
The single biggest issue affecting webserver performance is RAM. Have as much RAM as your hardware, OS, and funds allow [within reason].
The more RAM your system has, the more processes [and threads] Apache can allocate and use; which directly translates into the amount of concurrent requests/clients Apache can serve.
Generally speaking, disk I/O is usually a close 2nd, followed by CPU speed and network link. Note that a single PII 400 Mhz with 128-256 Megs of RAM can saturate a T3 (45 Mbps) line.
Select MPM
Chose the right MPM for the right job:
prefork [default MPM for Apache 2.0 and 1.3]:
- Apache 1.3-based.
- Multiple processes, 1 thread per process, processes handle requests.
- Used for security and stability.
- Has higher memory consumption and lower performance over the newer Apache 2.0-based threaded MPMs.
- Apache 2.0-based.
- Multiple processes, many threads per process, threads handle requests.
- Used for lower memory consumption and higher performance.
- Does not provide the same level of isolation request-to-request, as a process-based MPM does.
- The only MPM choice under Windows.
- 1 parent process, exactly 1 child process with many threads, threads handle requests.
- Best solution under Windows, as on this platform, threads are always "cheaper" to use over processes.
Configure MPMCore Features and Multi-Processing Modules
Default Configuration
<IfModule prefork.c> StartServers 8 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 20 MaxClients 150 MaxRequestsPerChild 1000 </IfModule> <IfModule worker.c> StartServers 2 MaxClients 150 MinSpareThreads 25 MaxSpareThreads 75 ThreadsPerChild 25 MaxRequestsPerChild 0 </IfModule> <IfModule mpm_winnt.c> ThreadsPerChild 250 MaxRequestsPerChild 0 </IfModule>
MaxClients, for prefork MPM
MaxClients sets a limit on the number of simultaneous connections/requests that will be served.
I consider this directive to be the critical factor to a well functioning server. Set this number too low and resources will go to waste. Set this number too high and an influx of connections will bring the server to a stand still. Set this number just right and your server will fully utilize the available resources.
An approximation of this number should be derived by dividing the amount of system memory (physical RAM) available by the maximum size of an apache/httpd process; with a generous amount spared for all other processes.MaxClients ≈ (RAM - size_all_other_processes)/(size_apache_process)
Use 'ps -ylC httpd --sort:rss' to find process size. Divide number by 1024 to get megabytes. Also try 'top'.
Use 'free -m' for a general overview. The key figure to look at is the buffers/cache used value.
Use 'vmstat 2 5' to display the number of runnable, blocked, and waiting processes; and swap in and swap out.
- System: VPS (Virtual Private Server), CentOS 4.4, with 128MB RAM
- Apache: v2.0, mpm_prefork, mod_php, mod_rewrite, mod_ssl, and other modules
- Other Services: MySQL, Bind, SendMail
- Reported System Memory: 120MB
- Reported httpd process size: 7-13MB
- Assumed memory available to Apache: 90MB
Optimal settings:
- StartServers 5
- MinSpareServers 5
- MaxSpareServers 10
- ServerLimit 15
- MaxClients 15
- MaxRequestsPerChild 2000
With the above configuration, we start with 5-10 processes and set a top limit of 15. Anything above this number will cause serious swapping and thrashing under a load; due to the low amount of RAM available to the [virtual] Server. With a dedicated Server, the default values [ServerLimit 256] will work with 1-2GB of RAM.
When calculating MaxClients, take into consideration that the reported size of a process and the effective size are two different values. In this setup, it might be safe to use 20 or more workers... Play with different values and check your system stats.
Note that when more connections are attempted than there are workers, the connections are placed into a queue. The default queue size value is 511 and can be adjusted with the ListenBackLog directive.
ThreadsPerChild, for winnt MPM
On the Windows side, the only useful directive is ThreadsPerChild, which is usually set to a value of 250 [defaults to 64 without a value]. If you expect more, or less, concurrent connections/requests, set this directive appropriately. Check process size with Task Manager, under different values and server load.
Directive MaxRequestsPerChild is used to recycle processes. When this directive is set to 0, an unlimited amount of requests are allowed per process.
While some might argue that this increases server performance by not burdening Apache with having to destroy and create new processes, there is the other side to the argument...
Setting this value to the amount of requests that a website generates per day, divided by the number of processes, will have the benefit of keeping memory leaks and process bloat to a minimum [both of which are a common problem]. The goal here is to recycle each process once per day, as apache threads gradually increase their memory allocation as they run.
Note that under the winnt MPM model, recycling the only request serving process that Apache contains, can present a problem for some sites with constant and heavy traffic.
Requests vs. Client Connections
On any given connection, to load a page, a client may request many URLs: page, site css files, javascript files, image files, etc.
Multiple requests from one client in rapid succession can have the same effect on a Server as "concurrent" connections [threaded MPMs and directive KeepAlive taken into consideration]. If a particular website requires 10 requests per page, 10 concurrent clients will require MPM settings that are geared more towards 20-70 clients. This issue manifests itself most under a process-based MPM [prefork].
Separate Static and Dynamic Content
Use separate servers for static and dynamic content. Apache processes serving dynamic content will carry overhead and swell to the size of the content being served, never decreasing in size. Each process will incur the size of any loaded PHP or Perl libraries. A 6MB-30MB process size [or 10% of server's memory] is not unusual, and becomes a waist of resources for serving static content.
For a more efficient use of system memory, either use mod_proxy to pass specific requests onto another Apache Server, or use a lightweight server to handle static requests:
- lighttpd [has experimental win32 builds]
- tux [patched into RedHat, runs inside the Linux kernel and is at the top of the charts in performance]
The Server handling the static content goes up front.
Note that configuration settings will be quite different between a dynamic content Server and a static content Server.
Reduce bandwidth by 75% and improve response time by using mod_deflate.
LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so
<Location />
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/css text/xml application/x-javascript
Loaded Modules
Reduce memory footprint by loading only the required modules.
Some also advise to statically compile in the needed modules, over building DSOs (Dynamic Shared Objects). Very bad advice. You will need to manually rebuild Apache every time a new version or security advisory for a module is put out, creating more work, more build related headaches, and more downtime.
Include mod_expires for the ability to set expiration dates for specific content; utilizing the 'If-Modified-Since' header cache control sent by the user's browser/proxy. Will save bandwidth and drastically speed up your site for [repeat] visitors.
Note that this can also be implemented with mod_headers.
Enable HTTP persistent connections to improve latency times and reduce server load significantly [25% of original load is not uncommon].
prefork MPM:
KeepAlive On
KeepAliveTimeout 2
MaxKeepAliveRequests 80
worker and winnt MPMs:
KeepAlive On
KeepAliveTimeout 15
MaxKeepAliveRequests 80
With the prefork MPM, it is recommended to set 'KeepAlive' to 'Off'. Otherwise, a client will tie up an entire process for that span of time. Though in my experience, it is more useful to simply set the 'KeepAliveTimeout' value to something very low [2 seconds seems to be the ideal value]. This is not a problem with the worker MPM [thread-based], or under Windows [which only has the thread-based winnt MPM].
With the worker and winnt MPMs, the default 15 second timeout is setup to keep the connection open for the next page request; to better handle a client going from link to link. Check logs to see how long a client remains on each page before moving on to another link. Set value appropriately [do not set higher than 60 seconds].
Make sure 'Options +FollowSymLinks -SymLinksIfOwnerMatch' is set for all directories. Otherwise, Apache will issue an extra system call per filename component to substantiate that the filename is NOT a symlink; and more system calls to match an owner.
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
Set a default 'AllowOverride None' for your filesystem. Otherwise, for a given URL to path translation, Apache will attempt to detect an .htaccess file under every directory level of the given path.
<Directory />
AllowOverride None
If mod_status is included, make sure that directive 'ExtendedStatus' is set to 'Off'. Otherwise, Apache will issue several extra time-related system calls on every request made.
ExtendedStatus Off
Lower the amount of time the server will wait before failing a request.
Timeout 45
Cache all PHP pages, using Squid, and/or a PHP Accelerator and Encoder application, such as APC. Also take a look at mod_cache under Apache 2.2.
Convert/pre-render all PHP pages that do not change request-to-request, to static HTML pages. Use 'wget' or 'HTTrack' to crawl your site and perform this task automatically.
Pre-compress content and pre-generate headers for static pages; send-as-is using mod_asis. Can use 'wget' or 'HTTrack' for this task. Make sure to set zlib Compression Level to a high value (6-9). This will take a considerable amount of load off the server.
Use output buffering under PHP to generate output and serve requests without pauses.
Avoid content negotiation for faster response times.
Make sure log files are being rotated. Apache will not handle large (2gb+) files very well.
Gain a significant performance improvement by using SSL session cache.
Outsource your images to Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3).
Measuring Web Server Performance
Load TestingApache HTTP server benchmarking tool
The Grinder, a Java Load Testing Framework
I have searched extensively for Apache, lighttpd, tux, and other webserver benchmarks. Sadly, just about every single benchmark I could locate appeared to have been performed completely without thought, or with great bias.
Do not trust any posted benchmarks, especially ones done with the 'ab' tool.
The only way to get a valid report is to perform the benchmark yourself.
For valid results, note to test under a system with limited resources, and maximum resources. But most importantly, configure each httpd server application for the specific situation.


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The first written evidence of the town ("polisma" as Emperor Ioannis VI Katakouzinos called it) names it "Komoutzina" and dates back to the 14th century. At the time, Komotini was a small and insignificant settlement situated along Via Egnatia, according to the evidence provided by the ruins of the town small square fortress, which forms part of the great fortifications scheme of emperor Theodosius I (379 -395 A.C.). So, Komotini was built for the protection of Via Egnatia as well as the rich plain from the frequent raids made by Barbarians who came from the north.
Komoutzina will fall to the Ottoman Turks in 1361, after a siege organized by apostate General Gazi Evrenos Bey, who had Greek origins.
From the 14th century Komoutzina started taking the form of a town, when people coming from the nearby Byzantine town of Mosynoupolis (destroyed in 1206 by Bulgarian sovereign Kaloioannis) settled there. The population of the town marked a spectacular rise after its conquest by the Turks, when a great number of Ottomans coming from Asia Minor settled here.
As there was no more enough space for both Christians and Muslims in the old Byzantine fortress, new quarters gradually made their appearance: Christian and Muslim quarters, the Gypsies' neighborhood and the Jewish quarter, inside the walls of the town where the synagogue was still standing till recently.
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Those sizzling, sultry days of summer are upon us, causing many of us to crank up the AC and, unfortunately, our energy bill as well. In fact, according to the U.S. Department of Energy, heating and air conditioning your home takes almost a whopping 45% bite out of your monthly utility bill.
So, how can you cool down air-conditioning costs and stay comfortable all summer long? We've got eight key tips:
1. Go green — and get planting.While trees can add to your home's curb appeal, they also provide an eco-friendly way to cool your home. By planting quick-growing trees such as a weeping willow or hybrid poplar around your home, you'll stop the sun from reaching inside your home. And if the trees or shrubs you plant shade your air conditioner, you can increase your AC's efficiency by up to 10%, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
2. Keep it clean. It's a good idea to clean or replace your air conditioner filter once a month when it's in use. When a filter is dirty, your system will have to work harder to keep you cool, and that wastes energy. Plus, cleaner air filters improve indoor air quality, so you and your family can breathe a little easier.
3. Program some savings. If your dog is the only one home all day, he probably won't mind if the house is a little warm. Programmable thermostats allow the temperature to automatically rise during the day when no one is home. The possible savings: up to $180 a year. For information on programming your thermostat, go to www.energystar.gov, where you'll find step-by-step videos.
4. Circulate and save. Depending on where in the country you live, you may be able to keep your home cool with some simple, inexpensive fans. The key is to circulate air inside the house. When possible, place fans on your home's upper level and open windows on a lower level. And if you use a ceiling fan, you may be comfortable enough to raise the temperature on your AC. A 2-degree increase can lower cooling costs by up to 14%, according to the EPA.
5. Dress those windows. Dressing windows or shading them with solar screens can intercept up to 70% of solar energy before it gets into the house. Window screens are particularly effective on East- and West-facing windows. Window films — transparent, metalized sheets that reflect heat before it can be transmitted through glass — are another option.
6. Slash your energy costs with a newer unit. By replacing your older air conditioner with a newer unit, you could cut your energy costs in half, according to the Department of Energy. Be sure to look for a high energy-efficiency ratio, or EER, or an Energy Star qualified unit.
7. Get Out of the kitchen. At least step away from the stove. Turning your oven on can really heat up your house. Consider other cooking options: toaster oven, crock pot, outdoor grill or try take-out.
8. Hit the always-a-bit cooler, basement.
Regina Lewis is a national television contributor and host of USA TODAY's "Money Quick Tips" videos. Follow her on Twitter: @ReginaLewis.
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wave, in physics, the transfer of energy by the regular vibration, or oscillatory motion, either of some material medium or by the variation in magnitude of the field vectors of an electromagnetic field (see electromagnetic radiation). Many familiar phenomena are associated with energy transfer in the form of waves. Sound is a longitudinal wave that travels through material media by alternatively forcing the molecules of the medium closer together, then spreading them apart. Light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation travel through space as transverse waves; the displacements at right angles to the direction of the waves are the field intensity vectors rather than motions of the material particles of some medium. With the development of the quantum theory, it was found that particles in motion also have certain wave properties, including an associated wavelength and frequency related to their momentum and energy. Thus, the study of waves and wave motion has applications throughout the entire range of physical phenomena.
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Team of the 2000s: #7 – UCLAPosted by rtmsf on August 12th, 2009
Ed. Note: check the category team of the 2000s for our other entries in this feature.
As we were going through the list of candidates for the top programs of the 2000s, we found that teams tended to fall into similar statistical cohorts. Among the top twelve programs, we found three such delineations where teams within each group were largely indistinguishable, and our discussions over rankings got more intense as a result. The group involving #8-#12 was one such cohort, and as we've noted in the comments, the rankings within that group came down to slicing hairs. The next group where teams were very similar begins today with our seventh choice, and continues through to the fifth selection early next week.
Overview. The nation's program with the most all-time championships failed to win one during the 2000s, but under the wise direction of Ben Howland, integrity and pride was restored in Westwood during this period. Whereas Maryland, for example, started off the decade with a bang and ended on a whimper, UCLA took the opposite track. The decade for the Bruins began better than you probably remember under Steve Lavin, with disappointing regular seasons followed by runs to the Sweet Sixteen (as a #8 and #6 seed in two of those years), but then the bottom fell out – the Jason Kapono-led team of 2002-03 wilted during a nine-game midseason losing stretch to end up with the first sub-.500 season in Westwood in over fifty years. Out with much-maligned Lavin and in with the studious Ben Howland from Pittsburgh. After one year gaining traction (11-17) under the new regime, things have been on the uptick ever since, as UCLA has been to five straight NCAAs with three consecutive trips to the final weekend sandwiched in the middle. In two of those years, the Bruins ran into the buzzsaw Florida teams that went back-to-back: we often wonder whether UCLA would have cut down the nets had they avoided the Gators in either of those years. In terms of UCLA's placement on our Team of the 2000s list, it's clear that the dominance they showed in the NCAA Tournament from 2006-08 has had an effect on people to the extent that the two losing seasons were largely forgiven. Six trips to the second weekend and three trips to the final one, while doing so with a generally weaker seed than its contemporaries on the list, is enough for us. UCLA was the seventh best program of the 2000s.
Pinnacle. Since UCLA has yet to win the brass ring under Howland, we're going to go with a well-known incident in the 2006 NCAA Tournament that announced to everyone in college basketball that UCLA was "back" and would have to be dealt with. You'll remember it well. UCLA was down nine points with 3:26 to go against America's mid-major darling, Gonzaga, and their NPOY candidate Adam Morrison. Gonzaga had been the dominant team for the entire game, but UCLA's pressure defense was just getting started. When it was all said and done, UCLA had finished the game on an 11-0 run, Morrison was left crying on the floor of the Oakland Coliseum and pangs of long-dormant hatred were welling up across America for the celebrating team in white and gold. UCLA would go on to the NCAA finals where Florida cleaned their clock (Act 1), but Ben Howland had established UCLA as a national powerhouse once again and recruits started lining up at the gates. Let's reminisce with Gus Johnson's call, shall we?
Tailspin. A UCLA fan would reply with "the Steve Lavin era," but that's a little unfair from an objective viewpoint. In Lavin's seven years at the helm, he took UCLA to four Sweet Sixteens and one Elite Eight in six NCAA appearances. Yet there was always a sense that his teams underachieved given the NBA talent they had on the floor (the fact that Lavin suffered ten losses of 25+ points supports this view). Still, the writing was on the wall during the 2002-03 season when UCLA started out 4-14 before rallying late to win eleven games (including a Pac-10 Tourney victory over #1 seed Arizona) – UCLA was on the ropes. Frankly, given the number of coaches that the Bruin program has gone through since the Wizard retired in 1975 (seven prior to Howland), it was no guarantee that their next hire would be a good one. Dan Guerrero made a shrewd choice in going with the rough-and-tumble style of Ben Howland – the rest of the Pac-10 wasn't ready for Big East basketball on the west coast.
Outlook for 2010s: Grade: A+. It's simply a matter of time before Howland hangs #12 up in Westwood. There's an unbelievable amount of talent in Southern California, and now with USC and Arizona out of the way (for a while, at least), the Bruins should even further dominate the market. According to Scout's team rankings, Ben Howland has brought in a top 25 class in each of his last five years at the school, and the last three years were all in the top twelve. And with six first-round NBA draft picks in the last four seasons, Howland has established a clear prep-to-pro pipeline that keeps young players interested in playing near the beach. Furthermore, Howland, at age 52, has no designs on another position. He's stated numerous times that he's currently coaching at his dream job, and unlike other coaches who shall remain nameless, we actually believe this guy. His next ten years should be the apex of his career, and UCLA should feel especially lucky to have gotten him.


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Apache Tomcat is now proclaiming stability for the 16th release in its 5.5.x series. Version 5.5.16 further strengthens the maturity of the platform as the march to the next major version begins.
Tomcat is a widely deployed open source Java server technology considered "the servlet container that is used in the official Reference Implementation for the Java Servlet and JavaServer Pages (JSP) technologies," according to the Apache Software Foundation.
Apache Tomcat Project Management Committee (PMC) member Yoav Shapira classified the 5.5.16 release as primarily a bug-fix release though at least some users should see some significant improvements.
Shapira explained to internetnews.com that those who use native Apache Portable Runtime (APR) connectors will notice improved stability and improved error reporting when errors do occur. Clustering features in Tomcat 5.5.16 now properly use session replication in cross-context environments such as portlet containers.
Users of Java Management Extensions (JMX) management consoles and users who embed Tomcat in their application and use JMX to monitor it will notice additional information exposed via JMX.
The Apache Tomcat 5.5.x branch first appeared in September 2004. The first stable release was the 5.5.4 release in November 2004. In the last year and a half, the 5.5 branch has strengthened and now quite stable and mature.
"We've had a number of stable releases and a good feedback from some large high-traffic installations," Shapira said.
The predecessor 5.0 branch of Tomcat is still available for download from Apache, though the 5.5 branch is now clearly being well adopted and deployed.
"I haven't measured this scientifically, but it seems that the majority of mailing list messages are about Tomcat 5.5 (and have been for a while), and that we get many downloads with each new 5.5 release," Shapira commented.
The next major branch of Apache Tomcat though is just around the corner.
"The 5.5 branch is winding its way into maintenance mode as we prepare for Tomcat 6.0," Shapira explained. "Tomcat 6.0 will be the version corresponding to the next servlet and Java Server Pages (JSP) specifications, servlet spec v2.5 and JSP spec v2.1 respectively."
The plan if for a Tomcat 6.0.0 release at the same time the new JSP specifications become final. New specification compliance isn't the only new thing users should expect in the 6.0.0 release.
"Internally, we are continuing our push to a smaller, leaner, faster and more modular Tomcat," Shapira said. "We are working on improvements, indeed more like a rewrite to Tomcat's clustering to make it truly enterprise-class."
"We also continue to work on improving the documentation and growing the community," Shapira added. "We've added a couple of new committers within the last months."
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SERIDAS team members are writing a book. The book proposal is pending at Cambridge University Press. Following highly favorable review by the Cambridge editor it is now going through the customary review by outside experts.
Sustainability of Engineered Rivers in Arid Lands
Modern river engineering is just a century old. It started in two rivers: Nile and Rio Grande. British engineers closed the first Aswan Dam in 1902. The U.S. Corps of Engineers closed Elephant Dam, an hour's drive north of El Paso, Texas, in 1916. Engineered rivers are the lifeblood of irrigated agriculture, produce electricity and supply water for industry and cities in the river basins. By now most large rivers in the world have been engineered—equipped with multiple dams, bypass canals, and distribution channels. River engineering brings large benefits to farmers and cities.
It also creates risks. In this project we study the most important ones in order to find out how the rivers will do in 2040 and 2060. We look at both physical and social drivers of change: climate change/variation, reservoir sedimentation, surface-to-groundwater connection, and environmental flow on nature's side; population and land use changes, as well as options for more efficient water use and better policies, on the social side.
SERIDAS stands for Sustainability of Engineered Rivers in Arid Lands. We assembled a team of river experts to project water supply and demand for a group of heavily engineered rivers worldwide. We also invited a second group of team members who can advise the river experts on how to deal with future risks.
How we got started: Rio Grande/Río Bravo
Back in the 1990s EPA and NSF ran a program called "Science to produce results". HARC received a grant to work with colleagues from Mexico to study the future of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo. We spent several years on the project and found that the river would be dramatically changed by 2030. Most importantly, there would be 1/3 less river water:
- Each decade the Rio Grande loses 5 percent of reservoir storage to sediment buildup behind reservoir dams
- Early impact of climate change is already measurable: the mountain snowpack which is responsible for the bulk of river water is diminishing
- The basin population will double by 2030 requiring a larger share of river water
- Environmental flow, already low, will decline even more
There was one good piece of news: we found that farmers might be able to maintain the value of current harvests while using less water—provided they adopted more efficient irrigation methods and shifted to less water demanding crops. And both agriculture and cities could make much progress with water conservation.
For a detailed summary of the study results see, J. Schmandt, Bi-national water issues in the Rio Grande//Rio Bravo, Water Policy 4 (2202) 137-155. The full report is available at http://mitchell.harc.edu/archive/RioGrandeBravo/Report. An abstract is available on the EPA website (http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncer_abstracts/index.cfm/fuseaction/display.abstrac...).
The Rio Grande results gave us pause: were they representative of rivers elsewhere? What are the prospects for engineered rivers in arid lands worldwide? We started SERIDAS to find answers.
2040 and 2060 Scenarios
Scenarios describe plausible futures. All of our scenarios include projections for reservoir sedimentation, environmental flow and changes in population and land use. In addition to those variables 2040 and 2060 scenarios use data and projections as follows:
- Business as usual: current water use + climate change
- Worst case: Business as usual + drought of record + climate change
- Seeking sustainability: More efficient water use + climate change + ecological restoration
Water Budgets
Water budgets account for water supply and demand. They are the main tools for the quantitative assessment of past, current and future hydrological conditions in each river. We will construct water budgets for the past (1970, 1990, 2010) and the future (2040 and 2060). There will be three water budgets each for 2040 and 2060, using Scenarios A, B and C.
Sustainability Assessment
We will use the water budget results to assess likely river and basin conditions in 2040 and 2060. We will use these criteria to determine whether river basins will be more or less sustainable than now: agricultural productivity, economic well-being of the basin population, ecological health and sound basin management. In a final step we will take all of SERIDAS basins together and ask what the future holds for global food security.
Project Announcements
HARC's Stephanie Glenn, HARC fellow Jurgen Schmandt, George Ward (UT) and Michael Cohen (CO) will be traveling to Germany to hold a symposium, "Sustainability of Engineered Rivers in Arid Lands", in Hannover, Germany in June 2015.


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Chargeman Ken is a 1974 short anime series that ran for 65, seven minute episodes. The series is available LEGALLY for FREE via Crunchyroll.
Chargeman Ken just might be the best, most awful thing in anime. And I mean that in a nice way.
The 65 episode series is so unashamedly awful that it has redefined internet memes decades after it's final airing. And yet, it's the awfulness of the entire visual package that makes it a must see. From it's shoddy, rushed animation, to it's blatant design stealing of Speed Racer and Johnny Quest, it's lack of sound effects and it's absentee plots, the show is actually so bad, it's fantastic.
Rating this anime was a chore. While I doubt that anybody watching this will ever consider a majority of it's episodes to be "imitative behavior" the sudden shock value violence that randomly appears disqualifies it from the Tween rating I almost gave it. It's astounding to think that this qualified as "children's entertainment" in 1974 when you consider how many episodes feature death and cruelty just out of the blue.
Chargeman Ken follows the story of a ten year old little boy, who lives in the distant and highly robotic year of 2074. Everyone has flying cars, everyone has at least one annoying robot sidekick, and Ken randomly transforms into a magical boy.
Where did he get his powers from? Why does he have them? This is never explained. Ever.
Ken has a deadly laser gun, has his own flying car, and two of the most negligent parents in all of anime. His mother and father let him out at all hours of the day and night, and do not seem to care at all that their ten year old is fighting an entire race of aliens by himself, and often, past curfew. They watch him frequently get himself into life and death situations, yet stand still and offer him no form of support.
Accompanying Ken is his six-then-seven year old little sister Caron, who wears far too much makeup, a dress that qualifies as just a long shirt, old lady beads and often, a pair of shoes the animators frequently forget to finish drawing. Since Ken's parents are unbelievably useless, it's up to Ken to raise his sister, though being a little boy still, he sometimes teases her. They are joined by a robot named Barican, who is equally as worthless as Ken's parents, only very, very vocal.
Ken's main enemies come from the Juralian race, led by a demonic alien who can't seem to plan ahead. No explanation is given for these people - or most of the plot for that matter, so let's just say they're here for world domination. Sound good? Cool.
Since every other human Ken meets is really one of these aliens in disguise, Ken finds himself having just moments to scream "CHARGING GO!!" the transformation phrase that turns him into Chargeman Ken... where he does a slow backflip and gets himself a new helmet and a belt. Seriously. That's it. Even when not transformed, he is usually wearing three quarters of his own costume ALL THE TIME unless he is sleeping. It's like if Clark Kent were to walk around with the entire Superman costume, and then scream "This looks like a job for Superman" and just add the cape.
Once transformed, Ken engages the aliens in a short batter, before either shooting them outright, or firing a laser from his plane. Even in the final episode, where the army is called in to help, Ken is relegated to just two or three blasts and *poof* the day is saved.
The only consistent weaknesses he has would be darkness and a sore throat. Without the combination of light and his screaming "CHARGEMAN GO!!" he cannot transform into Chargeman Ken. This again, is never explained. Much like the existence of a children's toy line for this series, it just plain "is".
Chargeman Ken is rife with animation errors, cel slips and some of the most sporadic violence of any anime of it's kind, and yet all of it's flaws makes this show a guilty pleasure. You just haven't lived until you've binged this short anime.
Akikan: The Unclean Soda
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I've been pretty busy the past few weeks, so I want to personally thank OneTexFan and Dan P. for stepping up and lending a hand. Their posts have been both exceptional and entertaining and I hope everyone has enjoyed them as much as I have.
I might also mention OneTexFan is doing all of his blog work from a smartphone. Impressive.
Here's one more as he looks to the Texans/Packers match-up this Sunday night!
~ Crimedog
The Green Bay Packers are now 2-3 in the NFC North. If the team is to regain a vote of confidence from its ownership and fanbase they need to even out their record by defeating the Houston Texans on primetime television this coming Sunday evening.
After Green Bay's attempt at knocking in the door to the Super Bowl fell short last year, some cheeseheads are thinking that their team might not get any closer than to the doormat this season much less to that proverbial big door.
There have been rumblings, grumblings, grimaces, and scowls worn up North, all portending news that the Packers' day in the sunshine may be over sooner than later.
Green Bay is simply not living up to expectations on either side of the ball. One glaring problem directly includes the notorious Dancing Diva himself,…er, …the world reknown Insurance Hustler, …ok, …the Quarterback of the team. While Clay Matthews and the rest of the 'D-Pack' have sacked opposing Quarterbacks 18 times this season, Aaron has been seen sharing too many precious moments with the turf. He's been grounded and pounded 21 times so far. That sack differential is cause for concern. Head Coach Mike McCarthy must be having nightmares after seeing Mr. Rodgers experiencing so very many encounters of the close kind.
On the other side of the matchup, the Houston Defense is currently third in the NFL in total yards allowed with 275.6 per game. The Texans' Bulls are also fourth in allowing points with 14.6 per game.
And although the Texans do have an esteemed number of talented who's who on Defense, it seems to be of greater concern as to who is Watt? JJ has been a major force to be reconned with as he removes his Clark Kent personna within the locker room to later emerge on field as his capeless alter-mega self. At times he does seem to be taller than a building and faster than a speeding bullet, but it's not gunfire that announces his handywork. It's the noise of a resounding sWatt hitting the ball on the way to the ground that is his remarkable calling card.
Green Bay's Defense has allowed an average of 469 yards to be gained on the team during the past two games. To be fair, if not for the daunting effort of Clay Matthews, Green Bay's cheese of a Defense would be more 'hole-e' than substance. Due to a less than re-stat-isfying evaluation earlier this week, Clay Matthews gained an entire half a sack over JJ Watt in the totals column.
Although the statistics show that Green Bay's Defense isn't the power house as once noted, Cornerback Tramon Williams, (a former Houston Texans teammate who was signed as an UFA in 2006 then waived at the end of that year's Summer Camp), remains a nasty problem for Offensive Coaches. He's known for his stellar shutdown abilities around the NFL.
Arian Foster is coming off of a tremendous Monday night of football and is looking at Green Bay's Defense with the "eye of the tiger". One way for the Packers to aid their effort for a win is to shut down Foster, stop him at the line for no yards gained, stand him up and slam him down. Yeah, …right! How many teams have been able to do that to a healthy Foster in the past couple of years?
But Mike McCarthy's team needs to remain balanced on Offense to have a remote shot at victory. In recent weeks when Rodgers was called upon to sling passes all throughout the game, his team lost.
McCarthy cannot rely on Cedric Benson Sunday night due to a foot injury, so Green Bay will use Alex Green as the go to Running Back. Even James Starks may show up for the Packers after briefly cooling his heels, (so to speak), with a turf toe injury.
Aaron Rodgers, the golden boy of Green Bay, has yet to reach the measure of success he attained last year. He has thrown 4 interceptions so far while last year he finished the season with 6. Conversely; the Defense had a total of 31 interceptions last year, but so far this season they have only managed 5.
And in one very remarkable note; the Packers are the only team in the NFL this season not to have registered a forced fumble recovery.
Mason Crosby, the Green Bay Field Goal Kicker has disappointed Packer fans by not being able to make much needed clutch 3 pointers recently. Fans do not want to see any close games decided by the action of Green Bay's Kicker.
The injury bug has hurt the Packers by shelving WR Greg Jennings due to a groin problem. Jermichael Finley, TE, injured his shoulder during Green Bay's last game, and B.J. Rali, DL, sustained an ankle injury recently. But the team shouldn't speak too loudly about injuries to this Houston Texans' squad. The Texans are well experienced with all the slings and arrows of such outrageous fortune. Last year it seemed that each game marked the listing of yet another man down for the duration. And notably; this week it was fan favorite Brian Cushing, (who suffered a torn ACL), was placed on Injured Reserve for the rest of the season.
Obviously the advantages favor the Houston Texans to win the matchup on Sunday night. But this appears to be the year of the upset in the NFL. Any dog can bite in the big boy league.
For the Houston Texans, they realize that they must keep up the intensity on Aaron Rodgers throughout the game. Wade Phillips should be unleashing the stampede in the Green Bay Quarterback's direction for all four quarters. The pressure should be so severe that Aaron Rodgers will be rethinking every move. It would be cause for Texans fan's amusement if Rodgers is forced to miscount and double check each of his snap counts.
Go Texans!!
~ OneTexFan


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Judge Posner serves of the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, where he was the chief judge of the court from 1993 to 2000. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.


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Olympic Ceremony
Even before NBC signed on for its coverage of the Summer Olympics in London on Friday, it drew a storm online for its decision not to stream the opening ceremony digitally. Despite the grumbling, it's a decision that may pay off for the network.
NBC Universal has promised to stream live online every athletic competition in the Summer Games for the first time. But the opening and closing ceremonies were always planned to be shown on tape delay, a network spokesman said. Coverage began shortly before 8 p.m. on the East Coast, about the same time that spectators in London — which is five hours ahead of New York time — were filing out of Olympic Stadium.
NBC Sports spokesman Christopher McCloskey said the ceremonies "are complex entertainment spectacles that do not translate well online because they require context, which our award-winning production team will provide for the large prime-time audiences that gather together to watch them."
Many people took to Twitter to complain Friday that they felt cheated by the decision, and provided online links to other outlets, like the BBC, that were streaming the ceremony online.
The website for Business Insider said "boo" about NBC's decision and offered two links. The popular sports website Deadspin posted a link to the BBC stream and urged its followers to watch it as a way of sending NBC an obscene gesture.
CNN's Piers Morgan, who was tweeting details about the ceremony in the late afternoon, tweeted shortly before 7:30 p.m. ET: "Laughable that America is yet to start watching the Olympic ceremony on TV. Seriously."
But NBC executives will gladly trade the complaints for a repeat of what happened four years ago in Beijing.
The network similarly offered the opening ceremony then on tape delay and there were many complaints, although less widespread because of a less wired world. But all the talk about the ceremony in the hours before it was televised created a buzz, and the 34.9 million people who watched it was the largest opening ceremony audience in 12 years. NBC makes most of its money through its prime-time advertising, and the strong opening night ratings set a tone that continued throughout the Games.
NO RUSH: Did some of the Olympic trivia uncovered by NBC researchers hit the cutting room floor on Friday? NBC prime time hosts Bob Costas and Matt Lauer noted more than once that athletes were entering the stadium for the opening parade at a faster clip than normal.
UPCOMING: We'll know quickly whether swimmer Michael Phelps will make these games his personal gold mine, like he did in Beijing. Phelps' faceoff with fellow American Ryan Lochte in the 400 meter individual medley highlights Saturday's full opening day of competition.


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More than three weeks since fleeing Hong Kong, and six weeks since leaking a trove of security-related documents, Edward Snowden remains holed up in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. The former U.S. government contractor's exposure of sweeping intelligence gathering at home and abroad unleashed a frenzy of media coverage.
Members of Congress have been quick to express their shock and dismay at his outrageous behavior. Doing so makes it easier to avoid the hard fact that they all knew -- or should have known -- about the lax oversight of these programs. I certainly did when I was in office.
The lack of supervision cuts both ways; even as a contractor at Snowden's level can obtain and release vast amounts of classified information, government agencies' appetite for still more data keeps growing. What little talk of reform may have broken through the din in Washington has yielded little substantive action. Republicans who readily supported the creation of these initiatives under President Bush are unlikely to change course. Democrats who should know better are happy to now give their own president a pass.
Completely lost in this sea of ambivalence are the most important issues at stake: In their current form, what do these programs say about our society and our willingness to forgo what only a few years ago would be considered basic principles of personal privacy?
You don't have to condone Snowden's leaks to believe that we are on a disturbing path.
Government power to demand vast troves of business records was at the heart of the filibuster I led to stop proceedings on the Patriot Act in 2005. We argued that the threshold for obtaining so-called "Section 215 subpoenas" -- which grant access to a broad variety of business records and other material without judicial approval -- was too low, that the gag order preventing business owners from talking to anyone about these subpoenas was too harsh, and that congressional oversight of the entire process was nonexistent.
We won additional protections for libraries, a revision of the gag order, and a better standard for roving wiretaps. But the potential for abuse of the Section 215 subpoena remained. That very power was used to obtain data on every call made with each of the country's major telephone carriers during the past several years. It appears that our concerns were well placed.
In 2005, as now, the president and attorney general made two fundamental arguments in their opposition to greater limits on Section 215 subpoenas or on the "warrantless wiretapping" at the heart of PRISM, the other National Security Agency program exposed by Snowden.
The first argument raised by the Bush administration then, and the Obama administration now, boils down to: "Don't obsess about the need for oversight, because we won't abuse the power we are given." But whether we are talking about business records, international eavesdropping, or President Obama's policy of targeted killing, we demand checks and balances not because we don't trust today's leaders, but because a day may come when someone less noble holds the reins of power.
Second, proponents have consistently justified intrusive intelligence gathering with the fact that it has produced some useful information in criminal or terrorist investigations.
Politicians and law enforcement officials are quick to endorse this rationalization, but it's a dangerous and slippery slope. By that measure, thumbscrews and universal wiretaps would also produce "useful information" in pursuing terrorists.
Instead, the relevant standard should be whether or not intelligence tools and oversight are constitutional and used appropriately. And just because something falls within the bounds of the Constitution does not mean it's a good idea or without consequence.
For example, it has often been suggested that we should utilize biometric technology -- fingerprints or retina scans -- for all travelers at ports of entry and even domestic airports. It is difficult to argue that such a program wouldn't "make us safer," as the expression goes. Eventually some bad guy somewhere would be tripped up. Yet the financial costs would be huge, and the benefits questionable. More important, however, I don't want to live in a society that tracks my movements this way or that maintains an extensive biometric database on the vast majority of Americans.
It may be hard to quantify what is lost as we slowly accept more and government recording and tracking of our everyday behavior. But a government that tells us that "you only need to worry if you are doing something wrong" has taken from us a sense of trust and shared responsibility.
Snowden will eventually pay his price, and he should. The documents he leaked have done real damage to our national security. (Anyone who has ever been stuck in an airport for just a few hours can delight in the predicament he has been in for weeks on end.) As he frantically negotiates for passage to asylum, our government will attempt to block his progress, and track his every move.
Good. Perhaps they'll be too busy to track yours and mine.
John E. Sununu, a former Republican senator from New Hampshire, writes regularly for the Globe.
What surveillance has cost
More than three weeks since fleeing Hong Kong, and six weeks since leaking a trove of security-related documents, Edward Snowden remains holed up in the transit zone of Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport. The former U.S. government contractor's exposure of sweeping intelligence gathering at home and abroad unleashed a frenzy of media coverage.